Short but good article about #Juneteenth in the #Oklahoma encyclopedia of history and culture
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=JU003
#okhistory
Socialism played a prominent role in Oklahoma politics more than a century ago
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2022/05/05/how-oklahomas-socialist-party-shaped-state/9511699002/
Zarrow Foundation creates $6 million fund to honor victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/zarrow-foundation-creates-6-million-fund-to-honor-victims-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre/article_df42622f-757c-5843-923a-b474080e364c.html
A 1974 souvenir of the Bertha Rogers No. 1 well, which sought natural gas almost six miles deep in Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin. — aoghs.org
The Lone Star Producing Company 1–27 Bertha Rogers hole or well was an oil-exploratory hole drilled in Washita County, Oklahoma in 1974, and was the world's deepest hole until it was surpassed in 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, dug by the USSR. — wikipedia
Sunday, May, 26, 2002 – The I-40 Bridge Disaster
A barge collided with a bridge support near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing a section of the I-40 bridge to plunge into the Arkansas River. Joe Dedmon, captain of the tugboat Robert Y. Love, experienced a blackout and lost control of the ship. Due to the location of the accident, automobiles and tractor trailers fell into the water, killing fourteen people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster
Supreme Court justices wrestle with Creek reservation case
https://oklahoman.com/article/5662097/supreme-court-justices-wrestle-with-creek-reservation-case-with-key-justice-dubious-about-states-psotion
#currentevents #scotus #creeknation #statehood #history #okhistory #oklahomahistory
Younger's Bend
http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=898
Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa race riot...
Scientists in Oklahoma are one step closer to finding possible evidence of mass graves linked to one of the worst incidents of racial violence in history. Researchers in Tulsa used ground-penetrating radar to survey three sites. Omar Villafrana reports.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/possible-mass-grave-from-1921-tulsa-race-riot-found/
A new school was built on the site in 1925 but closed in 1943 when the Babbs Switch district was annexed into the nearby Hobart and Roosevelt districts.
Roadside picnic table and Site of Babbs Switch Tragic School Fire memorial.
Gravestone for the victims of the Babbs Switch school fire at the Rose Cemetery in Hobart, Oklahoma.
Babbs Switch school after the fire, December 25, 1924.
Babbs Switch School before the fire in 1924.
Blog Oklahoma Podcast 063: Babbs Switch
https://youtu.be/wwYxS8Egxsk
Show Notes: http://blogoklahoma.net/episode.aspx?id=446
#podcast #oklahoma #blogoklahoma #blogoklahomapodcast #oklahomahistory #okhistory
Blog Oklahoma Podcast 063: Babbs Switch
http://blogoklahoma.net/episode.aspx?id=446
#podcast #oklahoma #oklahomahistory #okhistory #blogoklahoma #blogoklahomapodcast
Tar Creek Superfund Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Creek_Superfund_site
From the late 1880s to 1960s, the Tar Creek site consisted of 300 miles of tunnels where zinc and lead was mined. After the mining companies shut down in 1970, the lead and zinc-rich underground area became more than 800 acres polluted with mill and sludge ponds, contaminated groundwater and surface water and countless other environmental problems.On September, 8, 1983, Tar Creek was added to the EPA's Superfund National Priority List
Site of Babbs Switch Tragic School Fire
http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=394
On Dec. 24, 1924 35 people lost their lives while attending a Christmas party in a one room frame school house. The fire was started by a candle on a Christmas tree. A school building was built here in memorial and a model to point the way to safer county schools the nation over. The school was discontinued in 1943. Was dismantled and sold.
The Tri-State Point, Marker, and Post. All located around Cimarron County, Oklahoma. The places where three states meet.
1. OK CO KS.
2. OK CO NM.
3. OK NM TX.
Explore more Oklahoma history at http://blogoklahoma.us.
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Chief NE-KAH-WAH-SHE-TUN-KAH
Born in Osage CO. 1839. Died Aug. 3, 1923. He was Governor of the Osages four times and a member of the Council seven times. His sole aim in life was the welfare of his people.
The Chief Ne-Kah-Wah-She-Tun-Kah Grave and Statue was added to the National Register Of Historic Place in 1979.
Located in Fairfax Cemetery, Fairfax, Oklahoma.
Explore more Oklahoma history at blogoklahoma.us.
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